20th Century Wars

Wars and Conflicts from the 20th Century known to feature local men:
Since we cannot feature local men who are still alive without their express permission (under the data protection act) we have very little information on anyone who served after the Second World War. We would be very interested in hearing from anyone who served in the following wars and conflicts.

The First World War, 1914–1918

The Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921

The Second World War, 1939–1945

The Korean War, 1950–1953

The Kenya Emergency, 1952–1960

The Suez Crisis, 1956

The Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960

The Aden Emergency, 1963–1967

The Troubles, 1968–1998

The Falklands War, 1982

The Gulf War, 1990–1991

The Bosnian War, 1992–1995

The Kosovo War, 1998–1999

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About our Project

Why 'Men' of Worth?
When we started researching in 2003, we found only names of men on local memorials and as we felt their sacrifice had 'worth' and most of them lived around the river Worth we felt the name was apt. Also, Keighley's motto is By Worth, which fits rather neatly with our name. We have since expanded our remit to include everyone from Keighley and the Worth Valley who served in wartime.
Our Project researches local people from Keighley and the Worth Valley who served the country in wartime. Our earliest records are of soldiers who fought before the Battle of Waterloo!
We follow all available sources of information and use the information in these sources to create a biography about each person for our archive.

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